Evangelical Church Scheidt

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Evangelical Church from the southwest

The Evangelical Church Scheidt is a church building in the Saarbrücken district Scheidt within the residential area. It is centrally located a little south of the Kaiserstraße ( B 40 ) on the flank of the Scheidter mountain. In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The predecessor of today's church was a village chapel built around 1350 without a tower . Until the introduction of the Reformation in the 16th century, Scheidt belonged to the parishes of the St. Arnual Abbey .

After being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , the church was rebuilt as a baroque hall church between 1737 and 1738 , whereby the Gothic choir of the previous building was retained. A tower was not built. Instead, a wooden frame was used to hold a small bell . Since 1870 there has been a bell tower made of quarry stone in neo-Romanesque style on the north side , which was built according to plans by the architect Karl Memminger. The tower was placed on top of the chancel and the sacristy and not built on a foundation . As part of the construction of the tower, the preserved choir of the previous church was demolished.

On the front gable side, the church was expanded by 8 meters to the south between 1957 and 1958. With the addition of a gallery , the capacity of the seats was increased to 360.

From 1995 to 1997 the outside area was provided with a generous flight of stairs and further open spaces. The construction work was led by the architect Hubertus Wandel (Saarbrücken).

The Gustav-Adolf-Gemeindehaus , built in the late 1960s, and the church in the St. Ingbert district of Rentrisch also belong to the community . The rest of the urban area of ​​St. Ingbert belongs to the regional church in the Palatinate , while the community Scheidt forms the south-western tip of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

Furnishing

The large window above the altar and the two (lower) windows in the choir were designed by the Hungarian architect and church window painter György Lehoczky, who emigrated to Saarbrücken after the Second World War, and were installed during the renovation in 1957. The window at the altar is thematically dedicated to the resurrection of Jesus Christ , the two choir windows commemorate the victims of the World War. Two round windows located above the stairs to the gallery depict the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon .

In the tower there is a clock for all four points of the compass and three bells, the largest of which did not return until 1948, as its predecessor had been melted down for war purposes . They are tuned to the tones “a”, “c” and “d” and consist of a bronze-copper-tin alloy with at least 60% copper.
While the tower was not plastered, the rest of the church is plastered and whitewashed from the outside. The interior of the church is also whitewashed.

organ

Since 1965 there is an organ positive from Emil Hammer Orgelbau with two manuals , pedal and 14 registers with a range of 56 tones on the gallery . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Pointed flute 4 ′
4th Forest flute 2 ′
5. Scharff III-IV
II Manual C-g 3
6th Wooden dacked 8th'
7th Reed flute 4 ′
8th. Principal 2 ′
9. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Cymbel III
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub bass 16 ′
13. Pommer 8th'
14th octave 4 ′

Bells

In 1956 the Ev. Community two bronze bells from the Saarlouis bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern. This had been founded three years earlier by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer. The bells sound on a 'and d' '. They have the following diameters: 968 mm, 725 mm and weigh: 560 kg, 238 kg.

literature

  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
  • György Lehoczky working group (ed.): György Lehoczky, 1901-1979 . St. Johann GmbH, Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 3-938070-49-8 , p. 176 ( galerie-st-johann.de [accessed on September 7, 2012]).

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Kirche Scheidt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the state capital of Saarbrücken ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on June 28, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Information on the Evangelical Church Scheidt at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on June 28, 2014
  3. ^ [1] On: www.ev-kirchescheidt.de
  4. ↑ Organ of the Evangelical Church Scheidt ( memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on October 21, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saar-orgelland.de
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 568 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '43 "  N , 7 ° 3' 36"  E